Flock & ALPR Cameras in Irvine, California
Volunteers have reported 21 automated license plate readers in and around Irvine — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 22 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Irvine, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 13 of them sit inside Irvine itself.
The rest sit in Costa Mesa (1).
18 of them name an operator in the record: Irvine Police Department (10), County of Orange (8). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
8 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Irvine in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 15:28 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Irvine
The readers mapped around Irvine break down as 14 Flock Safety, 8 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Irvine Police Department, County of Orange. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Jamboree Road — 3 readers
- Arrivals — 3 readers
- Culver Drive — 2 readers
- Michelson Drive — 2 readers
- Main Street — 2 readers
- Coronado — 2 readers
- Orange County — 2 readers
- Airport Way — 2 readers
- MacArthur Boulevard — 1 reader
- Teller — 1 reader
- Departures — 1 reader
- Paularino Avenue — 1 reader
Irvine CA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Irvine CA PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 184 other agencies.
Irvine in the Orange County picture
Orange County has 1,223 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #764 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 3,164,063 residents and 6,653 road miles. By road density that is 0.18 cameras per road mile, in the top 1.5% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 20 traffic. Operators named on the record: Irvine Police Department (10), County of Orange (8).
What’s watching Irvine
These aren’t red-light cameras. Automated license plate readers like Flock Safety’s photograph every plate that passes, log the time and place, and store it in a searchable database that’s often shared far beyond Irvine — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Irvine (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Irvine
- Ice License Plate Readers California Mall Irvine Company
- 2 license plate readers reported removed near Irvine Health and Science Complex, CA
- 48 license plate readers reported removed near Irvine Health and Science Complex, CA
- 4 new license plate readers reported around Irvine Health and Science Complex, CA
What you can do in Irvine
Ask who approved these cameras, how long plate data is kept, and who it’s shared with. File a public records request, raise it at a council meeting, and see the full playbook on Take Action. Fighting this locally? Join or start a chapter and we’ll amplify you.
Not sure what one looks like? See photographs of installed cameras before you go looking.
Cameras near Irvine
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).